ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,594, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TTP PLC (Melbourn, Great Britain).
"Micro-nozzle" was invented by Simon Waddelow (Melbourn, Great Britain) and Jianye Wang (Melbourn, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insert for a micro-nozzle (10), and a micro-nozzle (10) comprising such insert. The insert comprises a microfabricated fluidic chip (1) having an inlet, an outlet and one or more microfluidic channels connecting the inlet and outlet and an overmould casing (2) overmoulded around the fluidic chip (1) so as to substantially encase the fluidic chip (1), and comprising an inlet in fluid communication with the inlet of t...